One of my favorite authors is Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote a narrative poem called, "The Raven." A vivid childhood memory I have is sitting cross-legged and wide-eyed to listen to an elementary school substitute teacher read 'The Gold-Bug' by Poe. Literary seeds planted.

Posted on Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Posted on Friday, September 6th, 2013

I’ve been holding onto my old copy of Microsoft Word until the very end. It’s simple and familiar.
Sometimes I find it hard to embrace change, especially with new applications where there are so many ins […]

Posted on Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Posted on Thursday, July 11th, 2013

The weirdest thing happened to me today, or I should say I received something really odd in the mail today. I ordered a Signature Stripes Luxe Turquoise Erin Condren monthly notebook planner from Tiny Prints – […]

Posted on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Have you ever gone to the library and come across racks filled with older, dusty, frayed books that have been donated for sale? You’ve seen them – the encyclopedias from 1950, a psychology textbook, and […]

Posted on Friday, April 20th, 2012

Create with Joy hosts a Friendship Friday linky with entertaining and enlightening conversation topics, and this week, the topic is passion. She has asked us to write a post about our passions and thank goodness, […]

Posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2012

To address this week’s Friendship Friday question with Create with Joy, there just isn’t one answer because I was constantly changing my mind. One of the first occupations I wanted to pursue was to become […]

Posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Barnes and Nobles tried to hide the clearance section of books from me, and I recently discovered it again. Could not resist “Smithsonian Presidents – Every Question Answered” by Carter Smith with its lovely extra […]

Posted on Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

This Christmas, my father gifted me “Who knew? Almanac” by Bruce Lubin & Jeanne Bossolina-Lubin.
This book has more than 600 pages of household tips, quick fixes and “money-saving miracles”. He actually saw it on the […]